936/1000 progress report

Hello everyone. haven't had the time to write one of these up until now. I have owned 936 for about 2 years now. When I bought here she was basically bone stock with a rebuilt bottom end from DSMGraveyard. she has some rust issues that I plan on fixing this spring, (no room in the garage thanks to my brothers TA).
Driveway Queen lol.
Anyway here is how she currently sits.
I would like to see close to 500 horse. I will be switching over to a borg warner s300 turbo soon.
if you see any weak links or have any advice let me know. thanks for looking

ok. you caught me. the po said it was a dsm graveyard with 9 rods and pistons. just checked their website and its only the pistons. my bad.thanks the install turned out to be rather simple just attached the upper bracket to the bumper mounts and welded some tabs to the radiator support.

ok. I believe I have my winter plans laid out. 1. fix the dsmgraveyard bottom end with new rods. I see a lot of people using pauter x beams or manley turbo tuff rods. also considering carillo I beams. any imput one rods would be a big help. 2. kiggly main girdle. 3. borg warner s300 turbo (still working out what specs I need to fit my needs). 4. top-mount exhaust manifold 5. acr2 spark amp 6. finish shaving the bay and minimizing wires

So this week ive been picking away at a project ive been wanting to do for a while now. Custom front strut brace. Its a dc sports bar for a 2g eclipse with custom mounting plates. Turned out quite well.

So i just pulled the pistons and rods. Was planning on just doing rods buuuuut the pistons are pitted as f#ck. So lets replace them to. I am fairly new to the bottom end of the motor. So stock comp ratio is 8.3:1 correct? Im planning on running quite a few booostes, would there be much benifit of switching to an 8.5 or 9.0?

I like 8.5:1. That is already a touch higher than stock which is 7.8:1. I like the extra margin of error that lower compression gives you. You could throw a bunch of boost and timing to it and still be relatively safe. I would mic your bores for taper and concentricity bro especially with the condition of those slugs. At the bare minimum, a cylinder hone will be required when you fit new slugs in there.

The best way would be a dial bore gage. Most people are not going to have that equipment. The other way would be with telescope gages and a micrometer. Calipers are not accurate enough.

On another note. You can go 9:1 pistons with that turbo and the boost that you want to run. You just need to make sure you have good enough rods to handle that. Those 1120 low z injectors will not be able to handle that. Even if you went to stock compression pistons you will probably run out of fuel. Same with the fuel pump. Your going to need to go to a wally 400 and run -8 feed lines.

I have manley turbo tuffs coming. I think im going to go with the 8:5 comp ratio just to be safe. Atleast until my tuning skillz are up to par. I know i am going to run out of fuel at some point. That stuff is a 30 min job to swap out.(inline pump). I'll cross that bridge when the time comes. Dont suppose map has a dial guage they "rent" out?